Clinical/Forensic Psychologist | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2024 |
| Location: | Retford, DN220PD |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6533407/186-1041-24-FS |
Summary
This post is a 12 month part time position covering maternity leave.
The role will involve providing a comprehensive, highly specialist clinical and forensic psychology service to patients within the Men's Personality Disorder Service, as part of an integrated trauma informed treatment pathway. This includes highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy as well as offering advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
The maternity cover is for a 0.2 WTE post is focused on providing long term individual integrated therapy, with predominantly forensic schema therapy, DBT, and EMDR approaches. This post provides the opportunity to work with these approaches and receive specialist supervision. Within the department there are experienced specialist therapy psychologists and accredited supervisors in schema therapy.
To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, and provide advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to other members of the clinical team.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Clinical or Work Practice
To provide specialist psychological assessments to patients within the allocated services, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients and others involved in the patients’ care.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of a patient’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, individual and group, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To liaise closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team, giving authoritative specialist advice on psychological aspects of care, contributing directly to formulation, diagnosis and treatment planning.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice and training to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To communicate in a skilled, persuasive and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment formulation and treatment plans of patients, and to monitor progress during the course of their multidisciplinary care.
To disseminate knowledge and skills in both general aspects of forensic clinical psychology, as well as a designated specialist area.
To represent Rampton Hospital and Psychology on Trust wide and other committees and groups, as agreed with the Head of Psychology and with a clear brief.
To develop networks and contacts to update the policy and practice of forensic clinical psychology, particularly as applied to mentally disordered offenders, to support professional and service development.
Teaching, Training & Supervision
To receive regular clinical supervision from a qualified psychologist and, where appropriate, other professional colleagues.
To deploy skills in the area of professional postgraduate teaching, training and supervision, particularly of clinical and forensic psychologists.
To supervise junior psychology staff and professional psychology trainees.
To provide teaching, training and supervision to staff and MDT colleagues, and other psychologists.
To continue to gain experience, and particularly in an agreed specialist area.
Research & Service Evaluation
To use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other MDT colleagues.
To devise and undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to others undertaking research, to develop service and clinical forensic psychology knowledge base as agreed with the Lead Psychologist.
To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, as agreed with the Head of Psychology.
Policies & Procedures
The duties and responsibilities of this post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practices of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and with the Code of Conduct and Guidance on Professional Practice issued by the British Psychological Society and the Health and Care Professions Council. t is the post-holder’s responsibility to ensure that they keep up-to-date with these policies and other policy documents.
Works in accordance with Forensic Division and Rampton Hospital procedures, in particular security and health and safety.
Applies equal opportunities principles at all times and participates in training activities and Individual Performance and Development Reviews.
Management, Recruitment & Service Development
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services through the development of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit as agreed with the Head of Psychology.
To identify and to advise service managers on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisation matters need addressing.
To help manage the workloads of junior psychologists as directed by the Head of Psychology.
To conduct individual performance reviews of junior staff by agreement with the Head of Psychology.
To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of psychology staff.
Health and Safety
To work within the provisions of the Trust Health and Safety Policy.
General Duties
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the Head of Psychology.
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in
regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the fields of clinical and forensic psychology and related disciplines.
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping, including electronic data entry and recording, and report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance, in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, the health and Care Professions Council and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific patient group and mental health.
To ensure that all aspects of professional activity (e.g. communication with patients, relatives, colleagues as well as in the assessment, development/delivery of interventions) issues of diversity such as race, culture, identity, gender and sexuality are sensitively considered and incorporated to reflect individual differences appropriately.
To ensure that service users are appropriately consulted about relevant aspects of their care and are empowered to express their views in a responsive environment enabling such views to be assimilated/incorporated into continued service development and improvement.
Additional Duties
To develop individual formulations and to lead team formulation planning, applying theoretical models of the psychology for mental health and offending to observed behaviour, cognitive, emotional and interpersonal patterns, for patients in the allocated services, who present complex clinical cases.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Sep 2024
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